Just a little thingy, but I found this really interesting. Jaida Jones and Danielle Bennet are a couple. HUH! were they a couple when/before they started writing Havemercy, or was it a romance bloomed from the writing partnership? Must have been after, because they said they met online doing Harry ...

Happy Birthday, Kimiko. Many happy returns.

Well! The writing has been coming along, and now I daresay I feel rather good about it. I have a solid outline for my book and for the first chapter. For each character, I aim to have the following established in my mind: Motivation : What does the character want? Complication : What gets in the cha...

So, how likely is it one would get a worm or other malware from simply opening a spam email with no attachments, images, or links? I noticed a couple of weird emails last night in my priority inbox, and clicked one without really thinking about it. Both had no attachments or links, and had kinda gib...

Okay, so has anyone ever seen a weird email from a sender named "janeman modi"?

Do I get to have my own room

'cause I don't like changing in front of other people . . .

Well! I went to my first Pride today, with OptyBoss and his husband, and friend from work! There's too much to recount in short order, but overall it was a thoroughly overwhelming, nerve-wracking, exciting, over-stimulating, eye-opening, and paradoxically soothing experience. For once I was not the ...

Noodles, your dream as a kid was to be a paleontologist? That's . . . I don't . . . really? I'm not sure there are words for how cute I find that. I just had this image in my mind of you as a tot writing "NOODLES AND THE DINOSAUR PYRAMIDS" or something in colorful letters across a piece o...

@Jubelon: Your plot dilemma: Can you detail your problem out a little better for us and maybe we can help? Well, it's not exactly a specific problem, but I guess I'd say that I tend not to pay enough attention to what's going to be happening in the story. I get really into my characters, and spend ...

Not sure where this really belongs but may be out for the next few days while I'm with my dad at the hospital while he's undergoing surgery (for his heart; no idea what kind of surgery really short of "had a heart attack, needs surgery."). I'm sorry you and your dad and family have to go ...